I think that's right. I'm going be more practical and say we're arguably living in one of the most dangerous periods since World War II. I don't think any country on the planet wants war.
What worries me more than anything is a mistake or an accident. What I think General Thibault was saying, if I interpreted him correctly, is we have no protocols to deal with accidents, including Russian bombers and fighters that go down most of our coast. We scramble our CAF jets to keep an eye on them, but what if something goes wrong and one of them blows up or they blow each other up? There are no real protocols to deal with this.
That's why I think the general is right. We absolutely have to keep hounding the Chinese for a protocol to deal with accidents, but we can't stop, because if we stop and the allies stop going through the straits, the Chinese will take them over and that will be the beginning of the end.